Improved mosquito-net



J. BURT'II-IOLMES, OFl PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Leners Pawn: No. 87,849, and March 16, 1869.

IMPROVE!) MOSQUITO-NET.

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Beit known that I, J. BURT HOLMES, offthe city andcounty of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mosquito-Nets; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, .sufi

ficient to' enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains, to make .and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through the centre of my improved net, and

Figure 2, a side view of the same when folded.

' Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding partsin the several gures.

The nature of my invention consists in hinging the frame of a mosqnito-netat the centre, so as to fold up and be made portable.

In 'the drawings- A'is a metallic frame, to which the net B is secured.

In order'that the frame may be folded and made portable, I separate it into two parts, and join the sections at the centre by means of bolts, a, provided `with screw-threads on their outer ends, on which `nuts or buttons, b, are screwed. r

To suspend thev net from the ceiling, I attach a hanger, O, to the top of the same.

I do not confine myself to hangers of any particular Second, when it is desiredto wash the netting, thebutton b is-unscrewed, and the bolt a slipped out. The

parts ofthe frame are'then separated, and each drawn out ofthe net. l

Oonstrnctedas above described, a simple and cheap net is-produced, the advantages of which. will be obl vious to all.'

yHaving thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Constructing the frame of a mosquito-net 'in two parts,- and connecting them in the centre by means of a bolt and button, substantially as andfor the purpose herein described. l

To the above, I have signed my'name, this 8th day of February, 1869."

' J. BURT HOLMES. rVfitnesses:

WM. A. WLEDERsHEL-M, H. M. WIEDEBSHEIM. 

